At dawn on a summer's morning, Aurora Rodriguez slipped into the bedroom of her 18-year-old daughter Hildegart and stood over her, holding the revolver she kept to protect them against predatory men. Slowly and with careful precision, she shot the sleeping girl three times in the head and once in the heart. Then she left the house and walked to the nearby home of a lawyer, waking him to confess to the murder.Killing her child was the last desperate resort of a loving mother, she said, and claimed that it was the only means to prevent Hildegart from being kidnapped by the novelist H G Wells – who she was convinced was working for the British secret services.Having given birth to the girl, who was conceived via a with the eugenic aim of creating a superhuman 'model woman of the future', Aurora believed she had the right to take the life she had so meticulously crafted.
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